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I remember visiting a Philips research facility near Maastricht back in 2001 back when they still made mobile phones. They had a prototype oled-display phone th
by tomalpha 9y ago
I remember visiting a Philips research facility near Maastricht back in 2001 back when they still made mobile phones. They had a prototype oled-display phone they were showing off. It took some 15 more years for that to go mainstream. Interesting how long a lead time there can be from concept to consumer product.
- Nullabillity 9y agoWhere does that 15 years figure come from? Samsung used AMOLED in the first Galaxy S back in 2010, and every update since then. The only thing that I can find happening around 2016-2017 is that Apple finally caught up. Did Qi also not exist before 2017?
- tomalpha 9y agoJust my limited knowledge and memory. Feel free to mentally substitute 10 years instead of the 15 years I wrote if that helps. And the prototype wasn't new in 2001 - it had been around for a year or maybe two before that, so 10 years feels about right. Roughly. Ish.
- dfox 9y agoThe problem with Philips' OLED displays around 2000 was that they were monochrome and for several years (97-2001 or so) Philips' marketing promised color ones "next year".
- tomalpha 9y agoThey were indeed monochrome. The one I saw was orange-on-black and I was also told that colour ones were coming “soon”.